Hungary last name question....?

Question:Are most people in Hungary with the same last name related, even if the relation is distant?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Are most people in Hungary with the same last name related, even if the relation is distant?

Fortunately, your "almasy" name really gives you your answer.

The use of surnames isn't that old in the area you are talking. Some areas and populations of what is now Hungary didn't take surnames until the late 1800s though some areas did much earlier (1600-1800).

When surnames were taken, they were often reflective of occupations (of course not all carpenters were related), some were formed from patronymics (Ivanisovich for example means "son of Ivan (ivanis)". Of course not all people who's father's name was "Ivan" were related.

And as in the case with Almasy, there were geonymic (habitational) based surnames, names associated with locales, land features, etc. In the case of Almasy, that is a geonymic for places called Almas in Hungary. And according to ancestry.com, there were 43 places in 22 counties of the former Hungarian kingdom called Almas (basically it means apple orchard). So this surname was taken by MANY people (unrealated) from the 43 "almas" places.

There are also variants that use "almas" as the base including Bacsalmas, Ricalmas, Hidalmas, and of course, just Almas.

As far as "Kusnyr", I don't know for sure but I would suspect this is a variant of Kushner which is an occupational surname meaning furrier.

dont know
any maczaks out there??? we can find out

Lot of people bear the last name- Hungary who are quite hungry and staying since long time in Hungary. !!
They finally are related in some or other way.. just see the name graph from1900 onwards !!

No, names were not unique to one individual who then passed them only to his progeny. Names were chosen by occupation and geographic features as much as anything. So there if there were 2000 bakers in the country who chose that as their "surname" 500 years ago, then their descendents are only related to the other descendents of that one baker from whom they descend and they have no relationship to the other 1999. Hungary has been using surnames in one form or another since the early 1400s. Even if you find two people from one branch of the same tree, the link could be so far back that you'll never be able to prove it.